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A report identifies hundreds of damaged structures across US military installations in multiple countries, with reconstruction costs…
began Oct 31now
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№110 (page 4) · newest development 10d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The Wall Street Journal identified 274 damaged structures across 24 U.S.-linked military installations in seven countries during the first six months of the…”— @FaytuksNetwork, Social media account · X · full quotes →
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A breach at a third-party analytics provider let hackers siphon an estimated $2.65 million from Polymarket users before the exchange froze…
began Oct 29now
107 pieces · 7 sources · 128 comments
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№111 (page 4) · newest development 13d ago · 107 pieces from 7 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We'll make this right and are fully reimbursing all affected traders”— Polymarket, company statement on X · NBC News · full quotes →
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Cloudflare mitigated 18.2 million network-layer DDoS attacks in Q3 2026 as short, high-frequency 'booter' strikes replaced the…
began Oct 29now
6 pieces · 3 sources
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№112 (page 4) · newest development 10d ago · 6 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Q3 network-layer attacks rose 38% from Q2, while attacks exceeding 1 Tbps fell 69%.”— ransomnews@poliversity.it · full quotes →
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Cybercriminals now exploit session cookies, SIM swaps, and MFA fatigue to breach accounts without needing login credentials.
began Oct 31now
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№113 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Experts now say passkeys, like biometrics and face ID, are the best way to protect our digital lives.”— Fox News · full quotes →
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Federal and local authorities are probing a fire that damaged the Mississippi police department's headquarters, which faced community…
began Oct 31now
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№114 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Authorities say an arson damaged the Senatobia Police Department building early Saturday.”— Mississippi Today / Associated Press · full quotes →
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AP traces Binance and Changpeng Zhao's record of alleged crime-enabling as the exchange becomes target of what may be the largest crypto…
began Oct 30now
6 pieces · 3 sources
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№115 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 6 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The alleged abettor of crypto crimes has become a target.”— Associated Press · full quotes →
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A Hacker News/Lemmy post warns that the privacy-hardened Signal fork Molly remains vulnerable to an October exploit that mainline Signal…
began Oct 31now
36 pieces · 3 sources · 191 comments
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№116 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 36 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It is really bad of Signal to not have a blobfree reproducible build on F-Droid and Flathub, or even just external repos (for F-Droid and flathub).”— HN commenter · full quotes →
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Hackers posing as IT staff tricked employees at McCarthy Tétrault, Davies, Bennett Jones and BLG, stealing thousands of client files.
began Oct 30now
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№117 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 5 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The compromised information included reports on revenue from clients; for certain clients, general descriptions of our mandates for them were also involved and…”— Bennett Jones LLP, Law firm statement · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A Washington Post investigation examines how suspected North Korean hackers executed a crypto heist worth billions of dollars in a matter…
began Oct 30now
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№118 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
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Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, ousted by Hegseth as the Pentagon's top war planner, now faces a criminal referral after the military said he…
began Oct 28now
225 pieces · 8 sources · 265 comments
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№119 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 225 pieces from 8 sources · ranked by recent attention
“US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out the Pentagon's top planning officer as President Donald Trump weighs new strikes against Iran, a source…”— CNN, news outlet · X (Twitter) · full quotes →
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Gunfire erupted inside a packed pop-up Halloween store at Solano Town Center mall on Halloween Eve; the shooter remains at large.
began Oct 31now
91 pieces · 5 sources
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№120 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 91 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“never experienced anything like this before”— Chara Brazley · full quotes →
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13d ago
US military investigators are examining spoiled food incidents at six-plus commissaries as a possible hack linked to a similar French…
began Oct 29now
70 pieces · 8 sources · 95 comments
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№121 (page 4) · newest development 13d ago · 70 pieces from 8 sources · ranked by recent attention
“working in close coordination with interagency and law enforcement partners.”— Pentagon · full quotes →
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Apple sent threat notifications to users across 99 countries warning of sophisticated mercenary spyware targeting their devices.
began Oct 31now
23 pieces · 5 sources
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№122 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 23 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Apple Warns iPhone Users in 99 Countries of Sophisticated Mercenary Spyware Attacks”— CyberSecurityNews · Google News · full quotes →
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11d ago
Anthropic says an unauthorized party used Cursor marketplace access to distribute a fake version of its extension.
began Oct 31now
4 pieces · 3 sources
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№123 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish”— @felixrieseberg · full quotes →
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A 28-year-old jogger attacked Friday night on a waterfront trail in Bath Beach remains in critical condition; NYPD has no suspect.
began Oct 31now
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№124 (page 4) · newest development 10d ago · 26 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Police found the 28-year-old woman with a stab wound to the neck and transported her to NYU Langone, where she was listed in critical condition as of Saturday…”— NYPD (via Gothamist), Police statement · Gothamist · full quotes →
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Mario Alberto Morales charged with aggravated assault after striking Miguel Parra Hernandez with his vehicle during an immigration…
began Oct 31now
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№125 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The evidence we have in this case is as clear as any that I've ever prosecuted or investigated.”— Sean Teare · full quotes →
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CrowdStrike reports a state-backed group deployed ARTEX to compromise sensitive government and corporate targets across 14 countries at…
began Oct 30now
3 pieces · 3 sources
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№126 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“This is the first time that we're seeing an agentic adversary nation-state threat actor at this scale, and I think that this is probably, unfortunately…”— Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike · full quotes →
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A Harris County grand jury charged ICE agent Mario Alberto Morales with aggravated assault after body-camera video showed him striking…
began Oct 30now
3 pieces · 2 sources · 5 comments
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№127 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The evidence that we have in this case is as clear as any that I've prosecuted or investigated”— Sean Teare · full quotes →
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12d ago
A Houston grand jury has charged an ICE agent in connection with ramming a man during a vehicle chase.
began Oct 30now
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№128 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 14 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
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ProPublica reporting shows Trump administration officials sought a covert hack of a voting machine while CISA's election security staff was…
began Oct 30now
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№129 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like. This goes against everything CISA represents.”— Former administration official, Anonymous former DHS/CISA official · Bluesky · full quotes →
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11d ago
The world's largest crypto exchange said it absorbed the full loss from a record North Korean-linked theft, easing market turmoil.
began Oct 30now
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№130 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“it would absorb the full financial impact of the theft so users would not suffer losses”— Binance, Cryptocurrency exchange · Investing.com · full quotes →
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Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable users received breach notifications on October 26.
began Oct 30now
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№131 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 33 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We detected that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to certain user d…”— Scribd Inc. · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A Silver Rail Elementary educator threw her phone at the gunman and subdued him, likely preventing further casualties.
began Oct 30now
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№132 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 8 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It all happened so fast”— Cassidy Schutz · full quotes →
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Archive of Our Own confirms security breach, unclear if user database stolen; site remains offline during investigation.
began Oct 30now
10 pieces · 3 sources · 41 comments
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№133 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 10 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“That seems crazy to me. I've been part of orgs that have had stuff like this happen and they've been mostly back within 24 hours.”— Suppafly · full quotes →
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Blockchain forensics firm confirms breach via "offensive agentic techniques" but says investigation tools and credentials remained secure.
began Oct 30now
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№134 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 18 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We are seeing an industry-wide rise in AI-driven cyberattacks, and we are taking a whole-of-company approach to make sure our security posture meets the…”— Chainalysis · full quotes →
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A dispatcher's thousands of unauthorized Flock license-plate-reader searches led to a steep drop in use once the misconduct was caught.
began Oct 28now
7 pieces · 4 sources · 14 comments
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№135 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 7 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The thousands of unauthorized Flock searches by a Highland Heights dispatcher are an example of potential abuses of the technology as experts weigh pros and…”— ianhillmedia, Social media poster · Mastodon (threads.net) · full quotes →
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Cloud infrastructure provider Linode issued a customer security advisory following a vulnerability affecting its services.
began Oct 30now
21 pieces · 3 sources · 109 comments
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№136 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 21 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“When mythos was released - I guesstimated that we had 6 months until hackers had similar enough capabilities that we would start to see real problems in the…”— FuckButtons · full quotes →
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A researcher used AI to find an exposed credential buried in Applebee's Android app, giving access to customers' personal records before…
began Oct 30now
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№137 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 13 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We appreciate TechCrunch and the security researcher for bringing this matter to our attention. Our security team promptly launched an investigation and has…”— Dine Brands spokesperson · full quotes →
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A follow-up probe finds additional points of breach beyond the initially suspected compromised laptop.
began Oct 30now
3 pieces · 2 sources · 616 comments
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№138 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Our initial investigation suggested that the security incident may have involved a compromised laptop, however our subsequent investigation has uncovered…”— @binance · full quotes →
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The world's largest crypto exchange was drained in minutes; authorities race to trace funds before hackers can launder them.
began Oct 30now
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№139 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“They're holding a hot potato. So, these hackers in turn will have to try to move even faster to basically somehow take this money and either exchange it for…”— Ilya Lichtenstein, Reformed hacker · Press · full quotes →
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Justice Department says fraudsters used AI to fake coursework and class attendance, seizing $750,000 in crypto tied to a Kenya-based…
began Oct 30now
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№140 (page 4) · newest development 12d ago · 22 pieces from 6 sources · ranked by recent attention
“If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build a future—we will find you. Whether you…”— Colin M. McDonald, DOJ Assistant Attorney General · Mastodon · full quotes →
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North Korean hackers breached Binance in minutes; AI detection and AI-powered attacks are now central to both offense and defense.
began Oct 27now
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№141 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 6 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It is a prerequisite for staying safe that you must use AI.”— Jeetu Patel, President of Cisco · OpenAI broadcast · full quotes →
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A Fort Bragg drill on burying battlefield casualties, the first at this scale since Korea, is recast online as evidence of domestic…
began Oct 26now
379 pieces · 7 sources · 922 comments
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№142 (page 4) · newest development 13d ago · 379 pieces from 7 sources · ranked by recent attention
“They are preparing for a false flag event on American soil.”— mikelking.com · full quotes →
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Nobel-winning economist argues private control of Starlink amounts to a national security risk.
began Oct 30now
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№143 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Control of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign…”
— Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate economist · X · full quotes →
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Hacking group says it exploited a flaw affecting digital displays across multiple countries simultaneously.
began Oct 30now
24 pieces · 5 sources · 90 comments
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№144 (page 4) · newest development 11d ago · 24 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Pictures or it didn't happen.”— bontchev · full quotes →
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— Changpeng Zhao, Binance co-founder · Bitcoin News · full quotes →
